Thursday, 6 October 2011

Have stash, will kit

October is well and truly here and with it comes a newCounterfeit Kit Challenge kit which is extra exciting this month as I start my time with them as part of their design team - I'm officially a Master Forger!

There's a simply stunning, pretty kit which jumped right out at me and shouted "Make me!" and we were also given a wonderfully cute Halloween themed kit which I couldn't resist either.

So I made two kits... it's not as if I don't have enough stuff to put in them after all!

I selected a whole selection of soft colours and papers for my first kit which I have named "Fall in Love" which is of course a play on words because, as you all know, I LOVE autumn.

I like the fact that this autumn kit isn't full of those browns and yellows because I use those all the time anyway. I added in a lot more embellishments and alphas than the original kit, but you knew that I would, didn't you? This might be a challenging kit to make any masculine layouts from, but I feel I'm up to that challenge and it's great to see some golden oldies in here from my seemingly never ending BG collection!

And then I made up a smaller kit of Halloween stash inspired by the selection of items in the original kit. I decided to put in my Cosmo papers, mixed in with some BG alphas and a lot of themed embellishments. Halloween isn't such a big celebration round here but we do get dressed up and have some fun, so there are layouts to be done each year. I figured, if I had a kit ready to go and the incentive of using it up for the Counterfeit challenges, I might get a few old photos down on pages. I have included a lot of felt scraps, inspired by the cutest banner in the inspiration kit. I'm definitely going to be making that to use!

I decided to give it a German name, "Schrecklich" which means "ghastly" but somehow sounds much cooler!

This month's sponsor over at CKC is Momenta. You can see their products here, their YouTube channel here, and their great blog here.

In order to be eligible for their prize package for this month, all you need to do is:

LIKE them on their facebook page (making sure you comment on their page to let them know that CKC sent you! )

Send an email to CKC to let them know that you did this.

Send a friend over too. You'll get an extra entry for each friend who also likes their page, comments on it and let's CKC know that YOU sent them!

Don't forget that Counterfeiting is for you whether you are a scrapbooker or a card maker. It's all about shopping your stash, joining in on some fun challenges and making stuff! Isn't that something that we could do all be doing a bit more of?

It would be lovely if you would join us - pop over to CKC and look around, there's a lot going on over there!

Brilliant name for a Halloween kit! I was just thinking about how my kids are too big to dress up now. But looking at your kit has made me think about going back and looking for old pictures to do something with!

one day I WILL get myself organised and join in. I just blink and its the middle of the month and I've not sorted any papers out. Really need to get stash busting and think this challenge site will help me no end.

Can't wait to see all your LO's and you truly deserve to be part of the DT.